Childhood Tuberculosis – Taking on a Giant…
We have mentioned before how .B is an epedemic here in th Phillipines (most of Asia actually), and Baseco is no differant. T.B kills people slowly and painfully, and due to the nature and time involved in the medical cure, the poor person can rarely afford the medicines needed for treatment, and so this truelly is a “poor person disease.”
T.B has killed more people than any other disease in the history of the world (HIV will soon pass it), one infected person will infect an average of 15 others before they die. Statistics say that the infection rate could be as high as one new case per second (obvioulsy in certain environments only). Most of us immediately think that that is impssible, but that is simply because we do not realise the size of the global prolem or the nature of the disease. More than 1/3 of the worlds population currently has active T.B, but because most of those people live in densely packed slums and depressed areas (places we never go), we never see it. Can you imagine and “airborne disease” (carried in the moisture drops that an infected person coughes out), that works best on compromised immune systems (malnourished children and adults), in a place where medicines are not affordable and where there is an average of 8,000 people per square kilometer (slum stats are much denser than this)…how many people could potentially be affected by such a disease…? BECAUSE THAT IS THE REALITY OF T.B IN THE WORLD TODAY…
Ever since the fall of man, there have been various evil spirits who have plagued mankind, remembering that 1/3 of the angels fell and those spirits have been in operation on the earth ever since. When you see/hear the symptons of a disease you are reading the profile of some form of evil spirit – somethings that is here to steal, kill and destroy. Have you ever wondered what a demon looked like…well, for us, it looks like T.B. It causes children incredible pain, displaces their heart and fills their lungs with fluid making it hard to breath, it distorts chests and hunches backs over – it causes suffering. Medically speaking T.B might actually be unstoppable. There have been few, if any changes in the medicines in over 100 years, but due to incorrect usage of the medicines (if at all), the disease has changed so many times, making many adults DRS (Drug Resistance Strains)…but if we see it as a spirit, then we can beat it, it can be stopped – JESUS CAN SET PEOPLE FREE FROM IT’S GRIP.!
